Standard 5: Create and Build Wealth – Students will develop skills to make and maintain long-term goals related to saving and investing in order to build financial security and wealth.
Grades 3-5
Grades 6-8
Grades 9-12
5.5.A Compare appropriate financial services and products to specified goals.

5.5.A.1 Determine saving goals.
5.5.A.2 Describe saving options.

5.8.A Align appropriate financial services and products to specified goals.

5.8.A.1 Determine the most effective savings option based on a specified goal.
5.8.A.2 Differentiate between various saving options, such as certificates of deposits, stocks, mutual funds, and bonds, and compare their current returns.
5.8.A.3 Determine the cost of various interest rates and fees of financial products.

5.12.A Critique appropriate financial services and products to specified goals.

5.12.A.1 Develop a model comparing savings and investment results.
5.12.A.2 Demonstrate the use of financial services and products to achieve personal financial goals.
5.12.A.3 Compare, contrast, and compute interest rates and fees of various financial products.
5.12.A.4 Differentiate between various investment products.
5.12.A.5 Select appropriate financial services and products based on evaluation of service and product information.

5.5.B Explain strategies for creating wealth and building assets.

5.5.B.1 Differentiate between banked versus unbanked.
5.5.B.2 Describe ways that financial institutions protect consumers’ money.
5.5.B.3 Describe the concept of “time value” of money.
5.5.B.4 Differentiate between “working for money” versus “money working for you”.


5.8.B Apply strategies for creating wealth and building assets.

5.8.B.1 Distinguish between financial practices of the banked and unbanked.
5.8.B.2 Explain how financial institutions protect consumers’ money.
5.8.B.3 Apply the “Rule of 72” to a financial decision.
5.8.B.4 Apply the principle of “pay me first” to realistic scenarios.
5.8.B.5 Distinguish between income and wealth.





5.12.B Evaluate strategies for creating wealth and building assets.

5.12.B.1 Explain the effects of being banked versus unbanked.
5.12.B.2 Describe federal deposit insurance programs for banks and credit unions.
5.12.B.3 Analyze the effect of “compounding” earned interest.
5.12.B.4 Explain the concept of asset allocation based on short- and long term goals.
5.12.B.5 Assess factors that influence financial planning (age, income, liabilities, assets, goals, family size, risk tolerance, etc.).
5.12.B.6 Explain the relationship among buying power, interest rates, and inflation.

5.5.C Explain the relationships between saving and investing.

5.5.C.1 Describe steps involved in saving.
5.5.C.2 Describe steps involved in investing.
5.5.C.3 Compare saving and investing.





(Panning, Saving and Investing D.2)
5.8.C Describe the relationships between saving and investing.

5.8.C.1 Differentiate between income and investment growth.
5.8.C.2 Describe reasons for saving and reasons for investing.
5.8.C.3 Identify sources of investment products, such as banks, investment companies, financial planners.
5.8.C.4 Calculate short- and long-term returns of stocks and bonds.

5.12.C Explain the relationships between saving and investing.

5.12.C.1 Describe the role of revenue-generating assets in building wealth.
5.12.C.2 Describe the processes and vehicles for buying and selling investments.
5.12.C.3 Compare sources for investment products, such as banks, investment companies, financial planners, etc.
5.12.C.4 Compare the risk, return, and liquidity of various investment alternatives.

5.5.D Apply the concepts of supply and demand to acquiring goods and services.

5.5.D.1 Describe the concepts of supply and demand.
5.5.D.2 Describe how supply and demand affect price.



(Planning, Saving and Investing D.3)
5.8.D Analyze how supply and demand affect stock market price changes.

5.8.D.1 Explain the concept of supply and demand.
5.8.D.2 Explain the economic principle of supply and demand as it relates to the stock market.

5.12.D Analyze the concepts of supply and demand to stock market price changes.

5.12.D.1 Explain how supply and demand works in various situations.
5.12.D.2 Determine the impact of various events on stock market prices.






5.8.E Apply the decision-making processes to financial decisions related to planning, saving, and investing.

5.8.E.1 Examine how spending plans are used to realize financial goals.
5.8.E.2 Examine how saving strategies differ between a spending plan and an investment plan.

5.12.E Apply the decision-making processes to financial decisions related to planning, saving, and investing.

5.12.E.1 Develop and justify the best investment and/or savings options to achieve particular goals.
5.12.E.2 Develop personal financial planning strategies that respond to and use tax deductions and shelters